We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 on Cloud and SQL Azure based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"Azure Portal is most valuable."
"The interface is awesome."
"The most useful feature of Azure SQL is the queries for manipulating the data, such as the tables and the storage processors."
"We're a Microsoft customer, so it fits in with everything else we work with."
"The dashboard is valuable."
"Emergency mode is quite useful."
"The stability of the solution is very good."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its seamless integration with Azure Data Factory."
"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."
"The management is entirely controlled by Microsoft, so there are some restrictions."
"I need Microsoft to allow their network to access open source technologies."
"Price definitely will be the negative point. It is quite expensive."
"I haven't explored SQL Azure's features much, but I would like to see some better integration with Python."
"The default 1433 port for communication should be customizable because most hacks or attacks are attempted when creating any application or database on the default port."
"The preset configuration switches we can select on SQL Azure should be made more liberal to work on."
"There is probably more functionality in our on-prem SQL Server than SQL Azure."
"What would make SQL Azure better is users having the capability of managing the database solution from the cloud, instead of having to do it from an actual machine because currently, database management via SQL Azure is done on a virtual machine or a PC. The solution should have the data functionality of managing SQL databases inside the cloud."
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IBM Db2 on Cloud is ranked 12th in Database as a Service while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. IBM Db2 on Cloud is rated 9.0, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 on Cloud writes "Reliable and user-friendly ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". IBM Db2 on Cloud is most compared with Google Cloud SQL and Amazon RDS, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, MongoDB Atlas, Oracle Database as a Service and vCloud Air.
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